Bottle holder



June so, 1925. 1,544,291

- L.' T. WRIGHT BOTTLE HOLDER Filed April 28, 1924 IN V EN TOR,

' BY LuZuZ'Wright ATTORNEY.

Patented June 30, 19 25.

UNITED STATES ZULU '1. WRIGHT, OF LOS ANGELFS, CALIFORNIA.

BOTTLE HOLDER. 7

Application filed April 28, 1924. Serial No. 709,412.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LULU T. WRIGHT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bottle Holders, of

which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to bottle holders and more particularly to a bottle holding device for supporting nursing bottles in any posi tion desired while in use.

The main object of my invention is to provide a holder or support for nursing bot-w tles which is light, durable and substantial, which grips the bottle securely and which affords a stable base to maintain the bottle in any desired position. Another object is to provide a bottle holder adapted for nursing bottles which will hold a bottle. of that character at an angle which will insure proper drainage therefrom, through the nipple at all times.

Other objects and advantages will appear hereinafter and while I show and will describe a preferred form of construction, I desire to be understood that I do not limit myself to such preferred form but thatvarious changes and adaptations may be made therein without departing from the spirit of my invention as hereinafter claimed.

In the drawings, which accompany this specification and form a part thereof,

Fig. l is a side view of my bottle holder and a bottle held therein.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged plan view of the bottle holder illustrated in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a side view of the holder shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a front end view of the holder shown in Fig. 3. I

Fi 5 is a view in perspective of a modified form of my bottle holder.

My bottle holder may be made of comparatively stiff and thin wire, bent into the proper form, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4-, or, it may be made of thin strips of metal properl bent, joined with rivets and clampe on a wire base, as shown in Fig. 5.

As indicated in detail, by the reference numerals, the supporting base 10 is made in the form of a right angled parallelogram with its sidebars 11 and its end bars 12v curved upwardly from the corners toward their middle'points, so that the base when placed on a p ane surface, rests on its corners. Parallel cross bars 13 and 14 fixed between the side bars, in spaced relation to each other and to the front and rear end bars respectively, support standards 15 and 16 which terminate in curved forks 17 and 18, adapted to conform to the curved surface of bottles placed therein; The rear standard 16 is made longer than the front standard 15, so that a bottle resting in forks 17 and 18 is supported in an inclined position with its bottom at. a higher level than its mouth, so that the contents of the bottle tends to run out, as is illustrated in Fig. 1.

Fixed to the front standard just under fork 17 is a forwardly extending hook 19, turned upward to engage the bottle bulge, back of the neck as shown in Fig. 1, thus holdin the bottle from slipping forward in the ho der. An eye 20 is formed in the front end bar 12 of the base for suspending the bottle holder when it is not in use.

A third standard 21, proportionately longer than the two already described, is

fixed on the rear end bar of base 10 in longitudinal alignment with standards 15 and 16.

This third standard terminates in a curved fork 22, similar to forks 17 and 18,. but

having its upper ends connected by a helical sprin 23 under tension, so that the sprin and ork cooperate tosecurely clam an hold a bottle placed therein. The ob ect of this longer standard is to provide for holding the bottle at a greater angle than that illustrated in Fig. 1, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3, when the bottle becomes more nearly empt The bottle holder shown in Fi 5 corre sponds in all its arts to that of Fi 3 and 4, except t at in this case spring 23 is omitted. This is due to the fact that the metal used in makin fork 22 may be of a sufficiently springy c iaracter to supply the necessary clamping effect without the helical spring. I

Having thus described my invention, I claim: p I

A bottle holding device for nursin bottles, comprising a rectangular base rame, cross bars fixed to theside bars of said base frame, standards of different lengths fixed in the middle of said cross bars, and one of the end bars of said base frame, upstanding curved forks terminating said standards, a helical spring attached to the ends of one of said forks, an upturned hook attached to one of said standards, said helical spring,

forks, and upturned hook, cooperating to hold a bottle in an inclined position with respect to saidbase, and an eye attached 10 to said base frame, by which the wholemay be suspendedwhen not in use.

LULU T. WRIGHT. 

